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From YouTube: CityTalk with John McIntire: Pam Vogel
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On this episode of CityTalk, John McIntire interviews Pam Vogel from the Department of Human Resources & Civil Service.
A
Hello,
I'm,
John
McIntyre,
welcome
to
another
episode
of
City
talk
where
we
try
to
refute
the
notion
that
people
who
work
for
the
city
are
nameless,
faceless
bureaucrats,
they
indeed
have
names
and
actual
faces,
like
the
lovely
and
talented
Pam.
Bogle
am
I
still
allowed
to
say,
lovely
and
talented,
yes,
good.
Okay,
she
is
with
human
resources
and
civil
service,
a
noble
profession,
no
doubt
yeah.
So
what
all
does
that
encompass?
Well,.
B
I
am
the
HR
liaison
for
college
and
community
relations
and
I
did
a
little
bit
of
everything.
I
do
manage
the
college
intern
program.
I
also
have
relationships
with
some
high
school
intern
programs
as
well,
and
help
out
with
the
United
Way
campaign,
for
example,
the
mayor's
mentoring
initiative
and
my.
B
B
Who
is
open-minded,
willing
to
learn
and
just
is
here
to
absorb
and
learn
about
city
government,
which
I
think
is
really
important,
because
before
I
started,
working
with
the
city,
I
had
no
idea
about
the
scope
and
breadth
of
all
of
the
services
and
things
that
they
do
here
and
I'm
a
lifelong
City
resident.
Actually.
A
B
Think,
generally,
when
people
think
of
city
and
government
services,
they
think
of
things
like
trash,
pickup,
Police,
Fire
EMS,
but
one
of
the
things
I
tell
all
of
our
interns
or
anybody
when
I
go
to
an
intern
or
employment.
Job
fair
is
that
we
hire
anybody
from
bricklayers
and
truck
drivers
to
videographers
and
architects
and
engineers
and
accounting.
So
it's
not
just.
We
aren't
looking
just
for
people
with
political
science
degrees
or
too
police
fire
or
EMS.
So.
A
A
A
B
That
was
a
new
initiative
that
we
started
this
year
and
it
was
initiated
by
I
believe
it
was
then
councilman,
Dan
Gilman,
who
is
now
chief
of
staff
for
mayor
Peduto
and
all
of
the
new
hires
that
we
have
coming
in,
learn:
friends-and-family,
CPR,
it's
not
of
a
certification
class
or
anything.
But
it's
like
you
said
it's
just
the
basics.
We
also
let
them
know
about
their
payroll
and
which
definitely
is
a
big
benefit
and
HR
policies,
and
things
like
that
as
well.
Besides,
medical
dental
life
insurance
that
kind
of
stuff-
yes,.
B
Civil
service
part
is
what
people
might
not
realize
is
that
we
have
civil
service
laws
that
govern
our
hiring,
and
so
the
city
has
civil
service
laws
that
we
have
to
follow
when
we're
bringing
in
new
people
on
board
and
the
police
have
a
separate
and
the
fire
have
a
separate
statute
as
well,
and
then
everybody
else
is
covered
under
that
all
of
our
employees
are
most
of
the
employees.
Are
civil
service
covered?
B
Is
actually
our
simple
service
book
that
I
have
is?
Oh
it's
only
about
that
big,
it's
pretty
pretty
small,
but
it
just
outlines
our
hiring
hiring
procedures
and
what
I
think
a
lot
of
people
don't
know
is
that
each
level
of
government
has
their
own
civil
service,
because
I
would
get
phone
calls
into
my
office.
Saying
well,
I
need
to
take
the
civil
service
exam
and
they
don't
understand
that
the
city
has
might
be
separate
than
the
county
that
might
be
separate
from
the
state
that
is
separate
from
the
federal
government.
I
personally.
A
B
B
Very
much
I
learned
a
lot
of
different
things:
I
learned,
bookkeeping
and
website
updates
and
things
not
coding
or
building,
but
within
a
program
to
do
those
kind
of
things.
Conference,
planning,
meetings,
I
provided
assistance
to
boards-
and
things
like
that,
so
it
was,
they
were
very
useful
skills
would.